Abstract
During recent years government otherwise concerned with trimming public sector spending have often trumpeted 'funding packages' dedicated to improving 'literacy competence' among school-age and adult populations. At the same time, the higher classes would need 'superior education and superior cultivation', in order to 'know the things the working men know, only know them infinitely better in their principles and in their details'. New literacy practices are emerging around new technologies which are making ever deeper incursions into everyday social practices, spanning the range from leisure to work, via communications, business, trade, etc. The technology-mediated literacy which Jacques engaged at home, despite the fact that he finds typing laborious, is likewise a potentially powerful literacy, assuming an enterprise culture. This contrasts markedly with his response to school literacy practices where, if computers were employed, he would likely reject them in the same way that he rejected the technologies of conventional print.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Contextualising Difficulties in Literacy Development |
Subtitle of host publication | Exploring Politics, Culture, Ethnicity and Ethics |
Editors | Janet Soler, Janice Wearmouth, Gavin Reid |
Place of Publication | London UK |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Chapter | 8 |
Pages | 102-114 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Edition | 1st |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315015705 |
ISBN (Print) | 0415289009, 9780415289016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2002 |